The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Alzheimer Disease and Other Dementias
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Description
The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Alzheimer Disease and Other Dementias is an up-to-date and comprehensive overview of dementia for psychiatrists and other health care practitioners who deal with cognitively impaired adults in outpatient, inpatient, and long-term care settings. With content ranging from clinical guidance to basic research, it contains information on nearly every subject related to dementing conditions or illnesses—not only providing extensive coverage of clinical management issues but also enabling a deeper understanding of the causes of dementia. Designed to assist the practitioner faced with everyday dilemmas, from dosages of antipsychotic drugs to legal and ethical issues, this textbook describes in detail the most common conditions and diseases leading to dementia and covers pharmacologic, behavioral, and environmental treatments. It also considers a broader range of cognitive disorders and impairment in order to help practitioners recognize and treat primary brain diseases and systemic disorders affecting the brain before they reach the stage of dementia.
Building on the editors' earlier work The Dementias: Diagnosis, Treatment, and Research, this new book expands on its scope, with nearly twice the number of contributors—all clinicians or researchers at the vanguard of the field. New to this edition are chapters on epidemiology, history of dementia, biomarkers for Alzheimer disease, care of the late-stage dementia patient, prevention of dementia, and chapters devoted to:
- Vascular cognitive impairment, emphasizing the importance of early detection with development of appropriate treatments and risk factor control
- Dementia with Lewy bodies and other synucleinopathies, describing differences in cognitive profile between synucleinopathies and Alzheimer disease
- Frontotemporal dementias, including behavioral and language variants
- Traumatic brain injury, distinguishing between proximal and distal effects and risk factors for dementia later in life
An abundance of charts and illustrations, extensive references and additional readings, and chapter-end key points make this a practical volume for learning, while appendixes include easily administered instruments useful in daily practice for grading cognition, day-to-day function, neuropsychiatric symptoms, and quality of life. Whether used as a clinical guide or as a sourcebook on technical and scientific developments, The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Alzheimer Disease and Other Dementias is an important reference for psychiatrists, neurologists, geriatricians, primary care physicians, and other health professionals who deal with cognitively impaired adults.
Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- PART I: Introduction to the Dementias
- Chapter 1. Dementia and Alzheimer Disease: Ancient Greek Medicine to Modern Molecular Biology
- Chapter 2. Epidemiology and Impact of Dementia
- PART II: Evaluation and Diagnosis of Dementia
- Chapter 3. Neuropsychiatric Assessment and Diagnosis
- Chapter 4. Medical Evaluation and Diagnosis
- Chapter 5. Neuropsychological Assessment in Dementia
- Chapter 6. Neuroimaging
- Chapter 7. Cognitive Disorders as Psychobiological Processes
- PART III: Alzheimer Disease and Other Dementias
- Chapter 8. Alzheimer Disease
- Chapter 9. Mild Cognitive Impairment
- Chapter 10. Vascular Cognitive Disorder
- Chapter 11. Dementia With Lewy Bodies and Other Synucleinopathies
- Chapter 12. Frontotemporal Dementia
- Chapter 13. Traumatic Brain Injury
- Chapter 14. Other Causes of Dementia
- Chapter 15. Psychiatric Disorders in People With Dementia
- PART IV: Treatment of Dementia
- Chapter 16. Pharmacological Treatment of Neuropsychiatric Symptoms
- Chapter 17. Behavioral and Environmental Management
- Chapter 18. Pharmacological Treatment of Alzheimer Disease and Mild Cognitive Impairment
- Chapter 19. Management of Advanced Dementia
- PART V: Caregiving, Legal, and Ethical Issues
- Chapter 20. Supporting Family Caregivers
- Chapter 21. Legal Issues
- Chapter 22. Ethical Issues and Patterns of Practice
- PART VI: Dementias: The Future
- Chapter 23. Biomarkers for the Dementias
- Chapter 24. The Molecular and Genetic Basis of Alzheimer Disease
- Chapter 25. The Future of Dementia Treatment
- Chapter 26. Prevention of Dementia and Cognitive Decline
- APPENDIXES
- Index
Contributors
- Marilyn S. Albert, Ph.D.
Rebecca S. Allen, Ph.D.
David Ames, B.A., M.D., F.R.C.Psych., F.R.A.N.Z.C.P.
J. Wesson Ashford, M.D., Ph.D.
Erin D. Bigler, Ph.D.
Malaz Boustani, M.D., M.P.H.
Adam Boxer, M.D., Ph.D.
Carol Brayne, M.Sc., M.D.
John C.S. Breitner, M.D., M.P.H.
Mary E. Bret, M.D.
Katharina Burger, M.D.
Louis D. Burgio, Ph.D.
Stephen Campbell, F.R.A.C.P., M.Ch.B.S., B.Sc.
Danielle China, M.S.
Edmond Chiu, A.M., M.B.B.S., D.P.M., F.R.A.N.Z.C.P.
C. Munro Cullum, Ph.D., A.B.P.P.
Martin R. Farlow, M.D.
Norman L. Foster, M.D.
Lawrence A. Frolik, J.D., L.L.M.
Dolores Gallagher-Thompson, Ph.D., A.B.P.P.
James E. Galvin, M.D., M.P.H.
Robert Garrett, M.D.
Yonas E. Geda, M.D., M.Sc.
David S. Geldmacher, M.D.
Harald-Jurgen Hampel, M.D., M.Sc.
Michelle M. Hilgeman, M.A.
Jason Holland, M.S.
Julian C. Hughes, M.A., M.B., Ch.B., M.R.C.Psych., Ph.D.
Laura H. Lacritz, Ph.D., A.B.P.P.
Anne M. Lipton, M.D., Ph.D.
Katy H. Lonergan, M.S.
Constantine G. Lyketsos, M.D., M.H.S.
Selamawit Negash, Ph.D.
Ronald C. Petersen, Ph.D., M.D.
Mary Quiceno, M.D.
Danielle Richards
Roger N. Rosenberg, M.D.
Craig D. Rubin, M.D.
Mary Sano, Ph.D.
George M. Savva, Ph.D.
Joyce Simard, M.S.W.
Martin Steinberg, M.D.
Cassandra E.I. Szoeke, Ph.D., F.R.A.C.P., M.B.B.S., B.Sc. (Hons)
Pierre N. Tariot, M.D.
Rawan Tarawneh, M.D.
Ladislav Volicer, M.D., Ph.D., F.A.A.N., F.G.S.A.
Myron F. Weiner, M.D.
Roy Yaari, M.D.
Edward Zamrini, M.D.
About the Authors
Myron F. Weiner, M.D., is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology; Aradine S. Ard Chair in Brain Science; and Dorothy L. and John P. Harbin Chair in Alzheimer's Disease Research, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas.
Anne M. Lipton, M.D., Ph.D., is in the Department of Neurology at Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas in Dallas, Texas.
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